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Description

Ages: 12-22Grades: 7-Adult

Use narrative-based language intervention to help clients increase their interactions with friends, family, and co-workers. These illustrated lessons are for teens and adults with developmental disabilities, autism, and/or English Language Learners.

The language lessons teach clients to generate narratives while focusing on listening, expression, vocabulary, grammar, and conversation skills. The materials use a strategy similar to the Teaching Tales model used with clients with autism (Blank, McKirdy, & Payne, 1997). This approach lets you target a variety of speech and language skills based on client need.

Each book has 25 age-appropriate lessons. Each lesson consists of a four-part picture sequence (i.e., a routine) and a corresponding page of language stimuli. Three levels of language stimuli allow you to easily adapt the lesson to your client's needs:

Beginner - two or three simple sentences per routine

Intermediate - three or four sentences per routine, more complex grammar, and sequence words like first and next

Advanced - four or five sentences per routine, more complex grammar, sequence words, and mental states such as thoughts, feelings, desires, and perceptions

Every lesson progresses in this sequence:

activate prior knowledge

listen to the story (routine)

story (routine) comprehension questions

retell the story (routine) with and without pictures

extension task

Each book targets a specific area of daily living. The 4-book set consists of:

Community - Understand and talk about routines at the bank, clothing store, coffee shop, pet store, video rental, and more

Home - Understand and talk about routines such as cleaning the house, grooming, preparing meals, washing dishes, and more